[Tlhingan-hol] Not capitalizing proper nouns
Robyn Stewart
robyn at flyingstart.ca
Mon Apr 8 04:58:13 PDT 2013
Consider the circumlocutions we use in English with unusual uncapitalized names like the person named bell hooks. You just have to be more careful of potential ambiguity. There are no capital letters in speech and we manage.
On 2013-04-08, at 1:15, "Michae Roney, Jr. PKT" <nahqun at gmail.com> wrote:
> In English, I'm used to capitalizing proper nouns.
>
> We don't do this in Klingon.
>
> Which makes me wonder how to specify that a word in Klingon is someone's name.
>
> I've recently been informed that German doesn't distinguish between
> nouns and proper nouns with capitalization.
>
> So, how do languages that don't distinguish keep things straight?
>
>
> ~naHQun
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